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	Professor Ian Lowe Professor Ian Lowe AO has degrees in engineering and physics. He is currently emeritus professor of science, technology and society at Griffith University in Brisbane, as well as being an adjunct professor at Sunshine Coast University and Flinders University. The author of 20 books and more than 500 other publications, Professor Lowe’s contributions to environmental science have won him a Centenary Medal, the Eureka Prize for promotion of science, the Prime Minister’s Environment Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement, the Queensland Premier’s Millennium Award for Excellence in Science, and the University of NSW Alumni Award for achievement in science. Professor Lowe was named Humanist of the Year in 1988 and made an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2001. Professor Lowe was elected ACF President in 2004.
	Dr Peter Davey Peter is Deputy-Director of the Centre for Environment and Population Health (CEPH) at Griffith University in Brisbane. CEPH specialises in Masters - leadership programs in public health. The Centre is an Associate Member of the Alliance for Health Cities (AFHC). Peter is Chair of the Healthy Cities and Shires Network - Queensland, a network that collaborates with agencies at a local level to facilitate Healthy Cities approaches. This work focuses on healthy cities planning in local communities. Peter has directed this research, teaching and on-going consulting activity for 15 years in partnership with national, state, local government and community groups in Queensland and in China including Macau, Indonesia, Taiwan and South Korea. Peter has worked as a practitioner and academic in public health and environmental science. Peter has experience developing partnerships for health in many Asian and Pacific Nations in health planning, environmental health practice, food safety and implementing health promotion strategic actions. His research and consultancy interests are in strategic health planning. Peter is Senior Lecturer in Environmental Health and coordinates both undergraduate and post-graduate programs in environmental science, health promotion and health planning.

	Ms Lillias Bovell - Executive Director of the Publishers National Environment Bureau and President of the Waste Management Association of Australia. Lillias has overseen a number of firsts in Australia; establishment of collection and treatment facilities, a tertiary lectureship in Waste Management in WA, was inaugural Executive Officer of the Municipal Waste Advisory Council and guided the design and implementation of a world class, web-based interactive hazardous waste tracking system for the WA Government. Lillias has been a guest lecturer at Bordeaux University, given presentations overseas and participated in a government delegation to China.

	Jason Johnston Solicitor, Projects, Sydney Jason is a solicitor practising in Freehills’ Banking and Projects Practice Group, principally as a member of the Environment and Planning team. Major projects and clients Jason’s principal experience in the Projects Practice Group is in the area of environmental and planning law. Jason has particular experience in issues related to climate change and access to water. Jason is a founding member of Freehills’ national Climate Change Steering Group. Jason has worked as a member of one or more legal teams on a number of matters, including the following (where Jason’s involvement has been in some cases also in relation to property issues): • advising Lend Lease Corporation in relation to its reporting obligations under the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Act 2007 • advocating for Lend Lease Corporation in relation to building energy efficiency measures • advising and advocating for Santos Limited in relation to carbon capture and storage and carbon issues generally • advising George Weston Foods Limited in relation to greenhouse and energy reporting and assisting in relation to pollution control issues • advising Mitsubishi Development Corporation in relation to greenhouse and energy reporting • advising Wesfarmers Limited in relation to carbon-cost pass-through • advising Woodside Petroleum Limited in relation to the currency of its Commonwealth environmental approvals for the North West Shelf Venture • advising the consortium which successfully bid to construct and operate the Defence Department’s proposed Headquarters Joint Operational Command at Bangelore, NSW • assisting Coles Myer Limited in relation to its successful appeal against the refusal of development consent for its proposed 1st Choice liquor store at Maroubra • advising Caltex Limited in relation to a range of planning and environmental issues • advising a number of coal mining companies in relation to water access issues

	Mr Philip Follent - Queensland Government Architect Philip Follent was the youngest person to be elevated to the position of Fellow of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects. He has had 27 years of architectural practice with 21 of those years in his own practice and winning 21 architectural awards. He became City Architect of the Gold Coast in 2003, Queensland Government Architect in 2008 and is currently adjunct professor at Queensland University of Technology and was voted lecturer of the year across all university campuses in 1996. He has history of environmental activism being president of a local environmental group for 6 years as well as one of the founding members of the Gold Coast and Hinterland Environment Council. His leadership of the Office of City Architect & Heritage has assisted the Gold Coast City Council to receive the Royal Australian Institute of Architects President’s award for the demonstrated and ongoing commitment shown by the city towards the advocacy for higher standards of architecture and urban design.

	Professor Evelyne de Leeuw Chair of Health and Social Development, and Associate Dean (Development and Partnerships) for the Faculty of Health, Medicine, Nursing and Behavioural Sciences at Deakin University. Professor de Leeuw (1960) started her academic career with a brief excursion into landscape architecture, but soon discovered health sciences at the Universiteit Maastricht, The Netherlands. After a Masters in Health Policy and Administration there (1985) she acquired an MPH at the University of California at Berkeley in comparative health systems research (1986) and a PhD on the feasibility of true health policy—public and private policies for health, not restricting itself to the health care sector or public health—in The Netherlands (Maastricht, 1989). She has been involved in World Health Organization (WHO) health promotion endeavours since the 1986 Ottawa Conference and attended all subsequent international health promotion conferences; at the fourth one (Jakarta, 1997) she acted as conference rapporteur. Since its initiation in 1986, she has been active in the international Healthy Cities movement. From 1992 to 2001 she held the position of Director of the World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre for Research on Healthy Cities at the Universiteit Maastricht. De Leeuw continues to act as Senior Advisor for Evaluation to the European network of Healthy Cities. Between 1992 and 1998 she served two terms as Secretary-General of the Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region. These six years were characterised by public health training acquiring higher prominence on political agendas throughout Europe, as well as an opening up of a renewed interest in ‘new public health’ in countries of Central and Eastern Europe; this resulted in a need for quality assurance mechanisms for both ‘old’ and ‘new’ schools of public health. As Secretary-General, de Leeuw made substantial contributions to such mechanisms. In 2001 she took up a position with the University of Southern Denmark, where she was charged with the development of new teaching and research programs in public health. Starting from scratch, she built a Department of Health Promotion Research with fourteen faculties from seven nations, and has established full bachelor and masters programs in public health; global health; health promotion; environmental health; health economics and evaluation; and health management. From 2005 Evelyne de Leeuw has been appointed at the Faculty of Health, Medicine, Nursing, and Behavioural Sciences at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. After two years as Head of School of Health and Social Development, she took up the new position of Associate Dean (Development and Partnerships). She has produced several textbooks on health promotion and health policy, published over 100 articles and enjoys writing ‘lighter’ material. Her current research interest focuses on the interface between knowledge, health, urbanisation, globalisation and policy development.
	Dr John Coulter - Sustainable Population Australia Dr Coulter’s academic career started with a medical degree followed by over 20 years in medical research across a variety of disciplines and lecturing in environmental studies. His political career saw him elected in 1987 as a Democrat Senator for South Australia. He was leader of the party 1990-93. He is no longer a member of any political party. While in the Senate he introduced the first legislation into the Federal Parliament to control the use of CFCs and the first legislation to protect threatened species and in 1989 initiated a Senate Inquiry into Climate Change for which he wrote the terms of reference. This Inquiry reported in January 1991 and among its findings said: 'Whilst community awareness and discussion are important the committee's view is that it is now time for action....The element that is missing is not information but action'. Since that report was tabled energy consumption in Australia has continued to rise, greenhouse emissions to grow and climate to change ever more rapidly. He has run major conferences on Climate Change starting with a national conference in Adelaide in 1986. Dr Coulter has been active in the conservation movement for over 50 years: in the 1950s in marine conservation, in the 1960s in town planning through the Town and Country Planning Association which successfully lobbied the first Dunstan Government to pass the Planning and Development Act of 1966-7. He was a founder member of the Conservation Council of South Australia (1971) and former President (1984), Councillor of the Australian Conservation Foundation 1973 – 1990 and from 2003 to the present and a former Vice President. He recognised early that population growth was one of the key drivers of environmental deterioration and in 1971 helped form ZPG Australia. He is presently National President of Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) (www.population.org.au) and edited the SPA Newsletter from 2000 – 2006. Dr Coulter will argue that environmental sustainability (ES) is a necessary precondition for a healthy and a liveable city and that ES is not possible without stabilising population and moving to a dynamic steady-state economy.

	Associate Professor Liz Eckermann - Deakin University Associate Professor Elizabeth Eckermann (M.A., Ph.D) is currently Interim Head of the School of History Heritage and Society at Deakin University. Prior to taking up her current appointment she was Associate Head of School (Research and Research Mentoring) and Associate Dean: Research in the Faculty of Arts. Her key areas of research interest and publication cover, women’s health, reproductive health, gender and health, domestic violence, quality of life and indicators of health status, health promotion and public health. Associate Professor Eckermann is on the Board of Directors of the International Society for Quality of Life Studies where she is Vice-President: Development. She was made a Distinguished Research Fellow of the Society in 2006 and in 2007 won the Zonta International Outstanding Achievement Award for her commitment to the advancement of women. She has undertaken over 20 consultancies on health promotion and gender and health for the World Health Organization in Geneva and the Western Pacific Region. She is currently conducting research and publishing on risk and reproductive health in Lao PDR and finishing a book on international perspectives on gender, lifespan and quality of life which is to be published by Springer.